To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written in August, prior to 25th, 1912Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48.

      Sent from Cracow to Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages295-296a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

      (2005).You may freely copy, distribute,
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Iam sending you a letter from Vera. You will see from it why we
decided toprintthe reply to the Germans for Chemnitz and to
print it in
Leipzig.[2]The Paris order must therefore be cancelled. I hope work on
it has not yet been started and the cancellation will not cause any great
inconvenience.

Youmust getwithout failto Chemnitz a dayor twoin
advance. We shall give a credential fromRabochaya Gazetato a
Bolshevik here who will go there from Zakopane. He speaks German.

#SeeplanThere’s a serious war ahead of you in Chemnitz.

||Weshall move to a new flat on September 2.  The new address: Ulica
Lubomirskiego. 47, au premier, à gauche.  (Grigory is at No. 35 in the
same street.)

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Writewhether you aresureto be in Chemnitz on the 12th or
13th of September. The reply to the Germans will have to be sent to your
name
			     postlagernd[1]in Chemnitz.

Bestwishes,Yours,Lenin

Peuple(Brussels) reprints fromRusskoye
Slovo[3]that a conference will soon take placein Vienna(sic!) of Social-Democratic organisations+the Bund+the Letts+the Poles,
etc.!!!

[[Dropin at the Paris group a couple of times and give them a talk. For they
have beenleft to their own devices....

]]

P.S.If an announcement of the liquidators’ conference comes out, send
it overexpress.

[1]Posterestante.—Ed.

[2]Areference to Lenin’s pamphletThe Present Situation in the
R.S.D.L.P.(see present edition, Vol. 18, pp. 203–20). The pamphlet
was sent to the delegates to the Congress of the Social-Democratic Party of
Germany held September 15–21, 1912, in Chemnitz.

[3]RusskoyeSlovo(Russian Word)—a daily, founded in 1895 and
published in Moscow by I. D. Sytin. Formally independent, it championed the
interests of the Russian bourgeoisie from moderate liberal positions.

Thenewspaper was closed down in November 1917, but it resumed
publication in January 1918, first asNovoye Slovo(New Word) and
then asNashe Slovo(Our Word), until July 1918, when it was
finally closed down.